NOTE: I did a new interview for Real News Network about the near-murder of Palestinian prisoner, Samer al-Arbid, by Shabak torturer, "Nurit." Please give it a listen and promote it on your social media accounts. For Pres. Trump...embroiled in an impeachment crisis at home, he has searched desperately for a foreign policy triumph to divert the public's … [Read more...]
New York Times Egypt-Israel Scoop That Never Was
חשיפה: המקור הישראלי העיקרי שלי עד 2014 היה בנימין ("פואד") בן-אליעזר ז"ל NOTE: This is a longer version of an article published in Middle East Eye last week. How America’s leading newspaper published a story claiming a three-year, secret Israeli war against Islamist insurgents in the Sinai in order to prop up that country’s military junta. The problem is … [Read more...]
Saudi Interventionism in Syria and Yemen Mirrors Israeli Adventurism
The New Yorker features a new piece (in many cases if a publication has a paywall you may bypass it by accessing the link using your browser's Incognito mode) about Saudi Arabia's rape of Yemen. It's depressing, but necessary reading because of the immense suffering the ambitious Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has wrought there. It's reminiscent of … [Read more...]
Trump’s Saudi Soliloquy
Donald Trump just made one of the most hypocritical speeches in American political history: and that's saying something. The same person who told the American electorate that Islam was a religion of violence and evil, and that America must close its doors to all Muslims because, as far as he was concerned, they were all likely terrorists--this same guy … [Read more...]
